Professor Claire Hughes: Siblings, Happy Schools and What Twenty Years of Data Reveals

Professor Claire Hughes, Cambridge's deputy director at the Centre for Family Research, joins Best Beginnings for a conversation shaped by more than twenty years of following the same children from the age of two. She talks about what siblings are actually doing for each other's development, why fathers' sensitivity grows through watching their partners, why the Millennium Cohort Study shows that children who like school in reception achieve significantly better outcomes a decade later, and why starting school is a bigger transition for parents than most people expect. One of the most research-rich conversations the podcast has had.